Posts Tagged ‘Linsanity’

January 22, 2014 · 8:30 AM ET

ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — Houston guard Jeremy Lin‘s road to the NBA was never easy — he was cut and waived by several teams before Linsanity struck in New York, and Lin finally inked a long-term deal with the Rockets.

But how did Lin keep working so hard to become the type of player he is today? In this new video from Volvo, Lin attributes at least some of his strength to an unconventional workout partner…imported from Sweden and weighing several thousand pounds.

January 7, 2014 · 9:44 AM ET

ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — Linsanity may have ended, but Jeremy Lin is still playing well (averaging 14 point per game) for the Houston Rockets, and is very popular in the US and abroad. When Lin’s Nike contact ended recently, adidas made him an offer he couldn’t refuse to join the three stripes. And to show the world his commitment to the brand, Lin teamed up with some of his adidas-wearing Rockets teammates to make an Instagram video displaying a new haircut. (BTW, since Iman Shumpert has been down this road before, I’m wondering if that hairstyle is gone by the next time we see Lin play.)

September 24, 2013 · 10:37 AM ET

‘Pistol’ Pete Maravich wore this jersey during a 1971 game as a member of the New Orleans Jazz.

ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — News broke last night that the NBA was considering allowing some players to wear nicknames on their jerseys. Now, before the Fun Police show up and try to ruin this for everyone, let’s make clear that according to the story, this is just a one-time thing — one game, two teams (Miami and Brooklyn), for only one night. But it’s clearly indicative of an idea that the NBA is at the very least open to considering, even if only on a limited basis.

Nicknames on jerseys has happened in other sports — soccer players around the world do it now, and closer to home, former Braves owner Ted Turner once tried to give pitcher Andy Messersmith the nickname “Channel” so that his jersey would read “Channel 17,” a free ad for Turner’s nascent broadcasting business.

This has also taken place in the NBA and ABA, back in the day, as seen in the photo of “Pistol” Pete Maravich up top on this post. But as the NBA has grown in popularity and become more corporate, the wiggle room for fun stuff like nicknames on jerseys has been squeezed out.

As a person who is an avowed opponent of the Fun Police, I am one-thousand-million percent in favor of this idea, if only because I’m sure fans of different players would love to rock jerseys with nicknames on the back. Above and beyond the jerseys we night see in a Miami/Brooklyn game — KING JAMES, for instance — off the top of my head, here are some nicknames that would be neat to see on the back of official NBA jerseys…

August 27, 2013 · 10:04 AM ET

ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — It was less than two years ago when Jeremy Lin got his chance with the Knicks and went from being on the verge of getting cut to becoming the toast of Manhattan. Since then he’s moved to Texas and he’s entering his second season with the Rockets, where he’ll team up with new big man Dwight Howard and returning All-Star James Harden.

But just because Lin is now an established NBA player, we shouldn’t forget the remarkable road he traveled to make it in the League. By all accounts, the forthcoming documentary Linsanity tells Lin’s story beautifully.

The film hits theaters on October 4. The trailer, you can watch right now …–

July 1, 2013 · 11:45 AM ET

ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — One of the great things about the summer is that we see NBA superstars pop up from time to time all over the world to get in some hoops anywhere they can. The latest example of this comes from Houston PG Jeremy Lin, who dropped 45 points over the weekend in San Francisco playing in a Pro-Am game.

Pretty impressive. Of course, the other thing that’s always fun to watch is when someone gets dunked on. And that happened to J-Lin as well…––
You know what they say: You’re nobody ’til somebody dunks on you.

February 27, 2012 · 3:13 PM ET

by Micah Hart

In case you were thinking the NBA, its fans and its media had become incapable of paying attention to anything other than Jeremy Lin and the New York Knicks, I hope All-Star Weekend put that notion to rest. Lin made an appearance Friday night in the BBVA Rising Stars Challenge, but that aside the weekend was mostly Lin free. I say that not to complain or to be smug — just to note that when Lin is not part of the storyline we all seemed capable of avoiding trying to shoehorn him into it.

Having said that … with all of our attention on Orlando, there were a few Lin-related items that slipped through the cracks, and now that we are back to regularly scheduled programming, here’s a rundown:

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon went to one of the show’s best bits last week, as Fallon appeared as Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder to perform “Jeremy (Lin)”.

Ben and Jerry’s named an ice cream flavor after Lin called “Taste the Lin-sanity”, then dealt with a mini-firestorm after many complained that the fortune cookie ingredient played on Asian stereotypes. They’ve since replaced the fortune cookie bits with bits of waffle cone.

It’s not all sunshine on the business side though, as Lin is seeking to trademark the uber-popular Linsanity catchphrase. Naturally several others have already applied for it, so we’ll see how this plays out. Kid’s got an econ degree from Harvard though, I have a feeling it may come in handy with this.

I think that about catches us up for now. At least for the next few hours.

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